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Herbert G. Tanner

Brief Biography:

Dr. Tanner got his PhD in mechanical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece, in 2001.  He went on to the University of Pennsylvania, where he spend two years as a post-doctoral researcher, before taking his first appointment as an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico in 2003.  He was awarded the NSF Career award in robotics in 2005 and was elected a senior member of IEEE in 2008.  In 2008, he joined the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware.

Research Interests:

Bert Tanner works in the general field of planning and control of robotic systems, with emphasis to multi-agent coordination.  Specific areas include hybrid dynamical systems, mobile manipulation, nonholonomic motion planning and control, and mobile sensor networks.